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<h2 class="wsite-content-title" style="text-align:
center;"><strong style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">13th
Annual Israeli Apartheid Week: </strong><br>
<span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42);"><strong>100
YEARS OF SETTLER COLONIALISM,</strong></span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42);"><strong>100
YEARS OF POPULAR STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE</strong><br>
Toronto, March 9th-17th, 2017</span></h2>
<div class="paragraph" style="text-align: left;"><strong><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/uoftdivest/"
target="_blank">The University of Toronto
Graduate Student Union BDS Ad-hoc Committee</a></strong>,<strong>
<a
href="https://www.facebook.com/StudentsAgainstIsraeliApartheid/"
target="_blank">Students Against Israeli
Apartheid UofT</a> </strong><font
color="#2a2a2a">and The CUPE 3902 BDS Political
Action Committee present Israeli Apartheid Week
(IAW) 2017, March 13th - 17th.<br>
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<font color="#2a2a2a">First launched in Toronto in
2005, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) has grown to
become one of the most important global events in
the Palestine solidarity calendar. This year, IAW
will take place in more than 150 cities across the
globe. The week aims to raise awareness about
Israel's ongoing practices of apartheid,
occupation, and dispossession against the
Palestinian people. Lectures, films, and creative
performances will build support for the
Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
(BDS) movement.<br>
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This year’s IAW will reflect on 100 years of
resistance to settler colonialism across historic
Palestine since the issuance of the Balfour
Declaration in 1917. The Week will also link the
history of Palestinian resistance to the struggles
of the Indigenous peoples on whose territories we
live, work, and study, and who are resisting
settler colonial violence and dispossession. Our
speakers this year will include Vijay Prashad, Lee
Maracle, and Hind Awwad, among others.<br>
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To endorse Israeli Apartheid Week in Toronto, or
to make a donation, contact: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:divest@utgsu.ca">divest@utgsu.ca</a> or
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:saia.opirg.uoft@gmail.com">saia.opirg.uoft@gmail.com</a>.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">For more
information on IAW and events taking place in
other cities please visit the official</span><a
href="http://apartheidweek.org/" target="_blank"><font
color="#2c00d9"> <strong>IAW Website</strong></font></a></div>
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Colonialism and Legal Ordering:
Israel as a "Jewish </strong></u><u
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Democratic" State</strong></u><br>
<u style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42);"><strong></strong></u><strong
style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42);">Featuring:
Mazen Masri</strong></h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><font color="#2a2a2a"><strong>Location</strong>:
Room 2098, Sidney Smith Hall, University of
Toronto, 100 St. George St.<br>
<strong>Facebook event</strong>:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.facebook.com/events/1857254031219605">www.facebook.com/events/1857254031219605</a><br>
<strong>Organized by</strong> the University of
Toronto Middle East History and Theory Workshop
and the UTGSU BDS Ad-Hoc Committee.<br>
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<strong>Details</strong>: The claim that Israel is
at once a Jewish and democratic state effectively
translates into policies and practices that limit
the rights of Palestinians in Israel. In this
lecture, Mazen Masri, Senior Lecturer in Law at
City University London, will focus on the existing
constitutional definition of the state as "Jewish
and democratic" to explore how a range of actors,
including the courts, state institutions,
politicians, and scholars, use this definition to
justify, and at times consolidate and extend,
Israel's project of settler colonialism and ethnic
cleansing.</font></div>
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Right to Education: The Politics
of the Academic Boycott</font></strong></u><br>
<font color="#2a2a2a"><strong>Featuring:
Vijay Prashad</strong></font><br>
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<div class="paragraph"><font color="#2a2a2a"><strong>Location</strong>:
Room 2017, Sidney Smith Hall, University of
Toronto, 100 St. George St.<br>
<strong>Facebook event</strong>:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.facebook.com/events/295659570851250/">www.facebook.com/events/295659570851250/</a><br>
<strong>Organized by </strong>Students Against
Israeli Apartheid and Faculty for Palestine.<br>
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<strong>Details: </strong>The call for an academic
boycott of complicit Israeli academic institutions
is a call for universities, academic associations,
and student governments and unions to refuse to be
complicit in and normalize Israel’s war crimes,
ongoing occupation, oppression and apartheid. In
this lecture, Vijay Prashad, Professor of South
Asian History and International Studies at Trinity
College, will speak to the case for the academic
boycott of Israeli academic institutions that are
complicit in such crimes.</font></div>
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15th<br>
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<h2 class="wsite-content-title"><u><strong><font
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Histories: Refusing Settler
Colonialism, From Turtle Island
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<font color="#2a2a2a"><strong>Featuring:
Lee Maracle, Hind Awwad, and Erica
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<div class="paragraph"><font color="#2a2a2a"><strong>Location</strong>:
Room 205, Claude Bissell Building, University of
Toronto, 140 St. George St.<br>
<strong>Facebook event</strong>:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.facebook.com/events/154902601692071/">www.facebook.com/events/154902601692071/</a><br>
<strong>Organized by</strong> the UTGSU BDS Ad-Hoc
Committee and the CUPE 3902 BDS Committee<br>
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<strong>Details</strong>: This keynote panel —
featuring Lee Maracle, Hind Awwad, and Erica
Violet Lee — will focus on articulating
connections between ongoing struggles against
settler colonial violence and dispossession across
Turtle Island (North America) and in historic
Palestine. The panelists will reflect on the
history and current state of these anti-colonial
struggles.</font></div>
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<div class="paragraph"><font color="#2a2a2a"><strong>Location</strong>:
Room 204, Rogers Communication Centre, Ryerson
University, 80 Gould St.<br>
<strong>Organized by </strong>the Coalition
Against Israeli Apartheid and Students for Justice
in Palestine at Ryerson University.<br>
<strong>Facebook event</strong>:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/442805949395489/">https://www.facebook.com/events/442805949395489/</a></font><br>
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<div class="paragraph"><font color="#2a2a2a"><strong>Location</strong>:
Room 102, Mechanical Engineering Building,
University of Toronto, 5 King's College Circle<br>
<strong>Facebook event</strong>:
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<strong>Organized by</strong> Students Against
Israeli Apartheid.<br>
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<strong>Details</strong>: To wrap up the week, we
will be hosting artists and performers to
celebrate the use of art as a means of
anti-colonial and anti-imperialist resistance. We
will be hosting Wafa Ghnaim who will be presenting
traditional Palestinian embroidery designs from
her recently published digital book, "Tatreez
& Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the
Palestinian Diaspora."</font></div>
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